I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 830 - 830 829. Ultraviolet Light

Chapter 830: 829. Ultraviolet Light Chapter 830: 829. Ultraviolet Light By the time Lu Ban reached the well, he had already stumbled upon the dark pillar outside.

The black pillar stood immobile, but no one knew the terror within it that could destroy the world.

Lu Ban was carried back to the beach and placed on the gravel, where the tide would periodically come in, submerging his deformed protective suit.

“Is your friend okay?”

Old Song pointed to the lump that was Lu Ban and asked Shia.

“He should be fine,” Shia replied.

Shia removed her outer protective suit. Her armor was already distorted. Tentacles that had grown from inside her body had burst through the armor, attempting to twist her neck.

A giant picked up a scanner-like device. The end emitted a pale purple light which shone on Shia, causing the tentacles to wither and die off. Shia, unembarrassed, directly pulled off the drooping tentacles and threw them on the ground.

“This thing can’t be used too long, unless you want to turn into a robot that’s devoid of any feelings and only capable of repeating things,” the giant said, explaining the principles of the device in a garble.

In the Foreign Domain, pollution does not disappear or recede on its own. The method used in the Splendid Realm involves using a more intense form of pollution to cover the unintended ones, like this purple light, which seemingly removed the pollution on Shia but in reality, it just used a stronger pollution to drive away those that had just attached.

Underneath Shia’s fallen armor, you could still see the squirming flesh, which under the purple light, turned dull, stone-like. Shia tapped on that area, quite satisfied.

But in her eyes, deep yellow tentacles were already spreading, entwining around her pupils as if about to burst through her eyeballs at any moment.

Incessant murmurs also tormented Shia’s sanity by her ears.

She knew she didn’t have much time left.

She was very aware of the condition of her body.

Due to the effects of the Magic Network, Shia’s body had a much higher tolerance for pollution than ordinary people, but even so, the mutation brought on by the decline in sanity was hard to eliminate. Upon entering the buffer zone of the well, Shia felt that its erosive effect on sanity was much more intense than previous missions.

Raising her hand, Shia noticed her fingers trembling, an uncontrollable phenomenon due to brain damage. As people age and suffer from nerve decay and lose control of their limbs, such symptoms also appear.

“At least I can still move.”

She felt fortunate that the erosion hadn’t affected most of her body’s functions. She could still run and jump, and fight.

Of course, Shia had some hidden techniques. From her previous adventures in the Foreign Domain, she acquired secret arts that could turn most of her body into a puppet, replacing the polluted body with mechanical structures, thereby removing the mutated parts while maintaining a human form.

But these secret arts couldn’t block the pollution itself. Even if she replaced her limbs with puppets, those limbs were still polluted. This type of pollution was conceptual, based on existence itself.

The reason to maintain a human form was that if one long adapted to the mutated body, sanity would gradually fade, eventually losing identification with “humanity” and more quickly degenerating into a monster.

The human form could be considered a sort of mental anchor.

Like Lu Ban, although he could avoid severe erosion by Melting, its impact on sanity was indelible.

The giant hung Lu Ban along with his protective suit, like airing clothes in the Pale sunlight. Soon, Lu Ban restored his human form, emerging from the protective suit, much like being reborn.

“The data situation is as previously calculated,” Old Song said upon seeing Lu Ban and Shia.

“The world’s future is no longer sufficient to pay the cost to Seal this pollution. If we continue, we all will give this world a funeral accompaniment,” he said.

Old Song’s body also had some mutations, but they were suppressed after being exposed to the purple light.

“I have a proposal,” Lu Ban said at this moment, not despairing from Old Song’s conclusion, but rather seeming eager to try.

“We still have one friend who may be able to reverse the current outcome.”

Upon hearing Lu Ban’s words, Shia’s expression suddenly became grave, confusion flickering in her eyes, but she quickly recovered.

“We originally entered this time anchor with three people.”

Lu Ban continued.

“Three people?”

Old Song furrowed his brow.

“It’s impossible, I didn’t see any other little people around here.”

But Lu Ban did not continue to explain to Old Song, instead he walked over to the shallow waters of the ocean, wading in up to his thighs, then yelled out,

“Come out, I’ll treat you to something delicious!”

His voice drifted over the sea with the waves but received no response.

“It seems she has to be bribed with food.”

Thinking this, Lu Ban prepared to return and use stones and wood to “make” a delicious and sumptuous dinner, when a young girl appeared in front of him.

The girl was dressed in a white robe and red hakama, her white tabi socks pressing tightly against her skin on the moist sand.

“You were trying to trick me with stones just now, weren’t you?”

Baobao squinted her eyes, staring at Lu Ban like a cat eying a ball that could roll around.

“Where have you just been?”

Lu Ban asked.

“I went to visit an old friend, hehe, it’s quite interesting to see him fallen to this state.”

A mischievous, triumphant smirk played across Baobao’s face.

“Are you talking about the one who was sealed?”

Lu Ban pressed further.

“Seal? Maybe only you think it’s a seal.”

Baobao bent down, her hakama’s hem getting wet from the sea, and she stretched out her hand to pick up a seashell from the sand.

“For beings like us, human seals are nothing more than wishful thinking, like lying down exhausted from work. Even if a bird chirps outside the window, it won’t make you get up to chase it away. But if your alarm clock goes off, then you have no choice but to get up.”

“Human seals are just those chirps, noticeable, but unimportant. When to wake up, when to sleep, when to create, when to destroy, are all but a whimsical thought for Them.”

“I don’t care about these, do you have a way to keep Him asleep?”

Lu Ban didn’t discuss with Baobao whether humans can truly seal the Outer Gods, focusing instead on the current situation.

“A way? There is one. My relationship with Him isn’t very good, and I came over here because it was amusing to see His current state, but why should I help you?”

Baobao’s corners of her mouth curved upwards.

“What would I stand to gain from this?”

She questioned Lu Ban.

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